Wireless Microphone Multi-Mode Transceiver Time Code Sync

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Solution Overview

Problem

Wireless microphone devices have limited functionality and inflexible usage modes, making them inconvenient for applications like interviews and video production, where synchronization of video and audio is often required manually or with specialized tools.

Innovation Solution

A wireless microphone device with an input unit, time code unit, conversion modulation unit, radio frequency unit, storage unit, and main control unit that allows for multiple working modes, including transmitter and receiver configurations, recording, and time code synchronization, enabling flexible operation and compatibility with various application scenarios.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If wireless microphone devices use simple functions and basic working modes, then device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but adaptability and versatility are insufficient for applications like interviews and video production

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveadaptabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The wireless microphone device is designed to perform multiple functions including transmitter, receiver, recorder, and time code synchronization. The main control unit can configure different modules to work in various modes (transmission mode, reception mode, recording mode, time code output mode) to adapt to different application scenarios such as interviews, video production, and meetings, thereby achieving multi-functionality in a single device.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The device employs dynamic configuration where the main control unit can dynamically switch between different working modes and adjust the operation of various modules (input unit, output unit, time code unit, conversion modulation unit, storage unit, radio frequency unit) based on the selected mode, enabling the system to adapt flexibly to different usage requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If wireless microphone devices integrate multiple functions like recording and time code synchronization, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity and difficulty of manufacture increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveadaptabilityVSAvoidease of manufacture
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple previously separate devices (transmitter, receiver, recorder, time code generator) into a single wireless microphone device. The input unit, output unit, time code unit, conversion modulation unit, storage unit, and radio frequency unit are integrated and controlled by a central main control unit, reducing the need for multiple separate devices and simplifying the overall system architecture despite the increased functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of operation

If wireless microphone devices support multiple working modes, then usability and flexibility are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveusabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The main control unit automatically configures the device's working mode based on the selected operation type. When a user selects a mode (transmission, reception, recording, or time code output), the main control unit automatically adjusts the configuration of connected modules without requiring manual intervention, making the device easy to operate despite its multiple capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12126951B2Wireless microphone device and use method therefor
Publication Date: 2024.10.22 APUTURE IMAGING IND CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention belongs to the technical field of audio equipment, and particularly relates to a wireless microphone device and a use method therefor. In the wireless microphone device, a main control unit controls a transmitter working mode in which an input unit, an output unit, a time code unit, a conversion modulation unit, a storage unit and a radio-frequency unit work together; or a receiver working mode in which the input unit, the output unit, the time code unit, the conversion modulation unit and the radio frequency unit work together; or a time code generator working mode in which the output unit and the time code unit work together; or a sound recorder working mode in which the input unit, the time code unit, the conversion modulation unit and the storage unit work together.